Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series

by Chris Abani and Kwame Dawes

TOWARD A LIVING ARCHIVE OF AFRICAN POETRY collects Kwame Dawes's and Chris Abani's introductory essays for the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box Set Series. These essays are conversations that celebrate the work of emerging African poets and build--meticulously and with principled care--a vision of a pluralistic literary community in which poets may thrive. Over more than ten years, Dawes and Abani have offered readers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1636142559
• ISBN13: 9781636142555
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
• Length: 160 Pages